Sunday, January 22, 2017

(Wien) On Friday (20 January) afternoon the Austrian
counter-terrorism unit Cobra arrested a man suspected of planning a terrorist
attack in Vienna, the arrest came after Austrian authorities were alerted by
foreign intelligence agencies of a possible attack. Austrian interior minister
Wolfgang Sobotka later told the press that the arrested man, an 18-year-old,
was an Austrian citizen of a Albanian background. He added that the man was
under observation for some days as there were indications of jihadist motives:

"Our police forces managed in quick time to arrest a
suspect and so prevent a potential terror attack in the federal capital Vienna.
The leads came from foreign intelligence services."